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ChelseaNH @chelseanh.bsky.social · Jun 28

Came across the term "petro-masculinity":

"In these spaces, fossil fuels can serve as potent conservative symbols that represent masculinity, autonomy, and self-sufficiency, even when they are not real economic interests for most of the public."

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Petro-masculinity and the politics of climate refusal

Writer in Residence Cara Daggett explores how 'climate refusal' is being created by new violent forms of petro-masculinity.

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 18h

This is a multi level problem btw, part of it has to do with the stochastic nature of the model, but the deeper issue is that negation in natural language is not the same as logical negation, and can never be, because natural language is inherently flexible in a way axiomatic logic is not.

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d

As an example: AI doesn't understand "no." Because the statements "no ketchup on my burger" and "ketchup on my burger" are almost identical to a machine that does not and cannot actually reason. It's only a 2 letter difference.

AI doesn't know 'no' – and that's a huge problem for medical bots

Many AI models fail to recognise negation words such as “no” and “not”, which means they can’t easily distinguish between medical images labelled as showing a disease and images labelled as not showin...

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 1d

“It may look confusing to outsiders, but what we’re trying to do is avoid making precedents that a Democratic government could also use.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 1d

Of course you could look to the role of the AMA, carving out ethics exceptions for medics overseeing CIA torture sessions, for a more modern example

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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 1d

If it was 1930, ICE would be sterilizing every person they detained.

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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 1d

In the pre-Nuremberg laws era, mass sterilizations, euthanasia, and human experimentation without consent, all with state support, were commonplace to a degree that would shock even a lot of modern fascists

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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a substantial literature about the enthusiasm the German, British, and US medical establishments had for fascism b/c it (1) embraced applied eugenics and (2) forced Jews out of the profession, opening up jobs

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 1d

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 5d

Over the months, we gathered material and analysis before working with colleagues @srfnews.bsky.social, @972mag.com, and @theferret.scot to bring the investigation together for their respective audiences.

SRF International podcast (via Susanne Brunner) www.srf.ch/audio/intern...

Realistische Fantasy: Die 3D-Erklärvideos der Israelischen Armee

Die israelische Armee erklärt Angriffe auf Ziele in Gaza und Libanon in Videos mit 3D-Grafiken. Der angebliche Beweis für Terror-Zentralen in Spitälern und Häusern ist jedoch irreführend.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 5d

I started working on this research in my spare time with a small group of fellow journos/artists — Nicole Vögele, @jakecharlesrees.bsky.social , & Robin Kötzle — after noticing recurring patterns in IDF 3D videos last year

The Ferret (via @billybriggs24.bsky.social): theferret.scot/idf-scottish...

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 5d

The TikTok outlines that a specific goal of these animations is to multiply their reach by cultivating secondary coverage

And indeed, dozens of major outlets like BBC, CNN and Sky News have aired them, in part or in full, often without context

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 5d

These videos are produced in-house by a small animation cell in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, working mainly in After Effects + Blender

In a TikTok posted after Israel's June attacks on Iran, soldiers describe working weeks under “prime-minister-level secrecy” to prepare visuals

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 5d

One of the earlier and most-viewed examples was an animation of Al Shifa Hospital, published in October 2023.

The “underground command room” was recycled from a 2022 IDF animation of an UNRWA school in Tel Al-Hawa; the street above was built from prefab @kb-3d.bsky.social storefronts

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 5d

These assets have been used in IDF videos as recently as September 5, in an animation of the Mushtaha Tower in Gaza City, which was destroyed by Israeli airstrikes the same day

In this video the ground itself is a patch-work quilt of third-party scans of pavement & parking lots

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 5d

Others assets came from scans made by the Scottish Maritime Museum of their boat-building workshop which was downloaded (via @sketchfab.bsky.social) and reimagined by the IDF adornments for underground missile factories.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 5d

Hubert's assets, created as decorations for cyberpunk cityscapes, are used especially widely in animations that the IDF released during their strikes on Iran in June.

Ripped assets from Hubert are shown here in stills from IDF animations, with blue highlights:

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 5d

We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Scans of parking lots, antennas, and pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 5d

Many of these “illustrations” aren’t based on verified intelligence at all.

Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

The Daily’s credulous/willfully ignorant/deliberately misleading portrait of Vought matters because it is indicative of a much broader tendency to normalize the assault on the constitutional order - to sanitize those who are responsible for it and the extremist ideas that are animating them.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

Vought is at war with large swaths of the population, with the very idea of a society defined by democratic pluralism. If you have correctly identified that this guy is now in a really powerful position, that people like him are in control of the government, how is that not the main story?

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 2d

The alarming aspect of this deliberate "anti-woke" algorithmic biasing of LLMs from an educational perspective is our institutions all bought in to an imaginary of innovation, then got locked in to enterprise contracts, and now the models are being recoded so they undermine educational values

Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 2d

Genuine question: for those enthusiastically pushing AI tools into every part of our education system—what checks/guardrails are there around algorithmic biases like this?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 3d

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 3d

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 3d

Bubbles are made to pop

Text describing how Nvidia chips are dependent on rare earth metals refined at one single location in China

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Trevor Henderson 🍉(commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 3d

love to be uncovering a long hidden child's drawing or fresco portraying a mysterious atrocity in a decrepit and abandoned manor by candlelight while furtive sounds of movement get closer and closer to my position

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